How do judges of the Indiana Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Indiana Court of Appeals / Joined 2008 / Active

Elaine B. Brown

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Elaine B. Brown is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 1,024 published opinions for the court (2008–2026), plus 35 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: W.B. v. Indiana Department of Child Services (105 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 512 of these were attributed to Brown by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2011	W.B. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	942 N.E.2d 867	105
2013	T.Q. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	996 N.E.2d 385	86
2014	Matthew Pavlovich v. State of Indiana†	6 N.E.3d 969	71
2014	Richard C. Gross v. State of Indiana†	22 N.E.3d 863	65
2009	B.H. v. Department of Child Services†	913 N.E.2d 303	58
2012	Ian McCullough v. State of Indiana· Dissent†	973 N.E.2d 62	57
2011	Caraway v. State	959 N.E.2d 847	54
2009	Oatts v. State	899 N.E.2d 714	54
2016	Justin S. Johnson v. State of Indiana†	62 N.E.3d 1224	42
2012	Terry and Laura Wagler, Larry and Jennifer Wagler, Norman Wagler, and Janet and Nathan Wagler v. West Boggs Sewer District Inc.†	980 N.E.2d 363	41
2009	Wilkerson v. State	918 N.E.2d 458	39
2012	Robert D. Davis v. State of Indiana†	978 N.E.2d 470	37
2012	Lee v. State	964 N.E.2d 859	37
2011	Bowyer v. Indiana Department of Natural Resources	944 N.E.2d 972	36
2010	Fry v. State	939 N.E.2d 687	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,079 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Indiana Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Elaine B. Brown on?: Elaine B. Brown is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 years on the Indiana Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).